Because a planner in and of itself will not change your life. 

Nothing about a Summer 2023 Calendar particularly revolutionary; there are 3 one-month spreads for July, August and September, and 15 weekly spreads from the end of June through the end of September.  

The true value It isn’t the silky-smooth paper or the glitter section tabs.

The true value even goes beyond the reflection and manifestationsections within the planner  

It’s the transformation you will experience because of participating in the Summer Planning Program. 

The compound effect from revisiting your goals every month for an entire season. 

 It’s the feeling of satisfaction you get from knowing that you set yourself up for success every month of summer; the lived experience of making choices that align with your desired reality. 

We will get you there through a combination of digital and pen to paper mindfulness practices, designed with your unique ideal outcome in mind. 

Welcome to the Summer 2023 Planning...

Yesterday was like something out of a fairytale. 

It felt like a culmination of everything I have been working towards since launching my brand in 2019. 

More than 20 people gathered to journal on their intentions, goals, dreams and gratitude for Summer 2023 after a heartfelt meditation in Central Park, with a castle backdrop. 

There were balloons, snacks, giftbags, gel pens, planners, journals…. a literal dream come true. 

But the reason yesterday was so special goes beyond all of that. 

My number one intention going into 2023 was to build relationships in New York City. When I looked back on my year in reflection during my Ideal Year Workshop in December, I noticed that most of my favorite memories from 2022 were the ones spent traveling. 

Most of the pictures I had taken were selfies from a coffee shop or taken when friends or my sister came to visit. When I took time to consciously reflect on this, I knew I was desiring a different experience for my time in New York, so I set...

Summer 2019 was when it all changed for me.

I was living in Waxhaw, North Carolina at the time with my Dad, in the aftermath of what I perceived to be a series of personal and professional mistakes. 

I deeply missed my old life; even though I had willingly chosen to walk away, I had been struggling with depression and found it difficult to move past my regret over quitting my high paying job. I hadn’t been happy for awhile, but my new life sucked in comparison to what I had left behind. I felt like a failure.

I lived like this for the first 6 months of 2019, and I look back on this as the hardest time in my life.

I discovered Kathrin Zenkina aka Manifestation Babe after looking up the definition of the term “Manifest” and coming across her podcast. I binged her content and somewhere along the way stopped feeling sorry for myself.

The way she lived and coached opened my eyes to the possibility of a better life.

I started taking ownership for my life circumstances and began to all...

Let me be real with you… I spent this weekend feeling totally exhausted.

Last week was a huge week for Ziggy. I made final changes to the summer planners, created Summer Intention Guides for my event, finished journals that are part of a big collaboration, and planned an in person live event for 30+ people to kick off summer.. all while having a full-time job and managing a social life in New York City. Oh right, and I resigned my lease, a decision that had been weighing on me for months.

I had been praying for a week like this for years. For so long I felt like I needed to be super busy for my business to be legitimate, for me to finally feel like it was real. I was still operating from a place of hard work = success and money, and this week I saw firsthand how far that was from the truth.

The legitimacy doesn't come from being busy; it stems from impact. The way to create the biggest impact is to show up as the best version of myself. 

With that said, I spent this weekend relaxin...

Part I

Part II

I have a mental image of myself laying in bed on a stormy Saturday morning Memorial Day weekend 2021, scrolling through all my friends’ Instagrams as they partied and celebrated my best friend in Croatia on her bachelorette. I made sure to like all their posts while simultaneously trying to ignore their stories.

I was far from being a victim here; if anything, I felt like a bad friend. I hated that I wasn't able to be there for my friend and myself at the same time, but it was a decision I made and needed to live with.

It triggered a short-term depression and I sought out therapy for the first time since my mid 20s.

Mental health treatment used to be very different. I used to secretly walk 4 flights of stairs in college to avoid being seen getting off on the “mental health floor” for my counseling sessions.

When I started my job in Chicago, I put a secret weekly meeting on my calendar and brought my entire makeup bag with me to clean up after therapy. I never told ...

Read Part I First

I was never confident in who I was. My parents got divorced when I was very young, and my childhood circumstances were… volatile.

I struggled to develop a firm identity, because as a child, I had learned it was safer to adapt. I became a social chameleon, who was always “down for whatever” and blamed any feelings of discontent or unhappiness on myself. 

This manifested itself as crippling anxiety, which reached a peak in 2019. I have since come to find that anxiety is often a signal that I disconnected or lacking trust in myself. 

 In March of 2020 (oddly enough), my life had reached a place of stability where I felt safe enough to go off medication. I had been prescribed ADHD medication (aka some variation of Adderall) and anti-depressants for the prior 7 years.

This is relevant because going off medication changed my relationship to alcohol.

 I could no longer rely on medication to combat my hangover anxiety. It was perplexing to experience the sensation I hat...

My first domestic solo trip to Florida came and went.

My Reiki II certification started the week after I returned. With each level of Reiki, you receive an atunement, which is essentially a ceremony where the reiki energy is passed to you from a Reiki Master. Reiki energy is universal (in Japan, they don’t even have a word for it because everyone practices energy work) but the atunements open you up to it, making you more receptive and able to work with the energy to help assist others through healing.

When you get an atunment, this energy is hyperfocused, and it removes everything from your life that is no longer serving you. 

I received my Reiki II atunement right when I got back from my trip, and almost immediately my world changed.

Within that next week, my boss and best friend at work quit in ceremonious fashions, the boy I had been dating informed me he was moving, my cats’ fighting had reached a peak and I learned that my Grandma was dying.

(I was simultaneously getting my ...

For my 32^nd birthday, I went on a solo trip to Colombia. The experience inspired to share about my travels in a deeper, more meaningful way. This trip took a lot of research, planning and confidence to make happen and in doing so, it reinforced the value and transformation solo travel provides. But before we dive into that, let’s talk about how we got here. 

Solo travel sort of found me. 

I went on my first domestic solo trip to Naples, FL for my 30^th birthday in 2021. I had put profound emphasis on this day for my entire life because it was on 3/30, marking it as Golden. 

 When I was invited to a friend’s surprise party the weekend of my (not yet planned) 30^th celebration, it felt like a gut punch. My two options were: A) go and pretend not to feel overlooked or B) celebrate my birthday in April.

Both felt equally depressing; I decided on a trip to the beach.

I booked a flight to Fort Meyers, Florida and spent the weekend with an old work colleague of mine. We toured the Evergl...

For years I struggled to define myself this way, but it is (and has been) the truth. 

It felt abstract or misunderstood. I didn't want to be categorized as one of those "new age people"... I've been a corporate girl my whole life after all. 

Something switched in me recently. As I started to see more shifts in my clients and the tangible ways their lives had been positively improved as a result of working together, I knew this was bigger than me. This work is too important to not share. 

The world is uncertain and life post Covid has never been "the same."

The new normal is anything but. Prices are high, people are getting laid off, crazy headlines hit the news everyday. 

I'm not saying I am immune to these events, or even worse, unaware of what is going on, but I have found a way to live and regulate my nervous system so that I no longer suffer from paralyzing anxiety or need to take medication to regulate my body chemistry. 

In spite it all, I've managed to become the happiest,...

Today marks the Full Moon in Cancer! 

As a celebration, we have released a new copy of our FULL MOON WORKBOOK! If you haven't already signed up for our Printable Library, be sure to check out the following webpage to be granted access-

https://www.allisonziggy.com/printables

Once you have access to the printable library, be sure to bookmark it so that you can reference it! We are adding new content regularly. 

Excited to see how you transform with this Full Moon :) 

xoxo,

Allison